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1 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Lord Emberbole’s undergalley continued its lazy progress through the farther islets of the Archipelago of Koom. Its wide, arabesque belly dragging pearly-crested wavelets across the oily, cimmerian surf. They had, following...
24 Jan 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
With a disquieting mingle of emotions both caliginous and bright. Pyna watched the figure leisurely pace - producing a deliberate, echoing ironshod cacophony with each footfall - from out beyond the concealing wall of the Solarium, then slowly aroun...
23 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Hello again! As you probably know by now, my latest work, Well-Behaved Monsters, is coming out April 9. But I’m rewarding the brave and loyal among you with a special Kindle preorder price of 99 cents. Just click the snazzy image above or t...
19 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Two nights passed, then three. Pyna had learned that, as she slumbered deep in undesired convalescence, the Burning Houses and their martinets had laid open the Opal Quarter’s Hall of Stews. That it had been churned into an allagrugous ruin. The plea...
16 Jan 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Okay my friends and neighbors, the print edition of my next book, Well-Behaved Monsters, is now available for preorder! The rest of the world can only get their copy beginning April 9. But as an exclusive to my loyal readers of this newsletter, th...
14 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments RickyShadows
Nathema is justice manifest in a dual blade wielding, impossibly fast angelic cyborg. She has one etheric wing that switches sides as she jukes about, a smooth round head featuring only two glowing blue green eyes, and a lightweight titanium super a...
14 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
The room expanded into a broad oblong gallery. Lit by narrow and tall, oiled and burnished brass canister-lamps that cast a grainy orange illumination, breeding macabre-bending shadows that raced across the bare, basalt-flagged ceiling with every tw...
14 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments RickyShadows
Year twenty-one hundred, Tokyo Japan: Ryosuke lay weary in the comfīort of his bed, looking out upon the transformed⁷ Tokyo skyline, busy with ai piloted drones at work maintaining the city and assisting the people with day to day life. A clear blu...
13 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments kleo69
Disclaimer: This story is like a big soup - some bits are from books, some bits are from my head. Slurp it up! In early 2020, amidst a growing interest in cryptocurrency, a young software engineer named Alex received a rather unexpected gift a...
12 Jan 2025 7 minute read 0 comments RickyShadows
12,000 years ago, Saudi Arabia He was going to show the beaurocrats and holy men in Atlantis that they were fools to cast him out, fools not to recognize his vision of ruling the world alongside titans of fire and shadow. Soon they would bow to his...
